Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 17:09:34 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux "stub" libraries? (was Re: Quake's out..) Message-ID: <199603030009.RAA02992@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603020828.JAA20533@DeepCore.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.ORG" at Mar 2, 96 09:28:10 am
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> Hmm, I think it might be possible to fake ALL the libs under ELF, the > way it works we should be able to make our own linuxELF libs and have > them working WITHOUT even a kernel emulator. THis way I can run (some) > SVR4 binaries on my system, with a fake svr4 libc that provides the > svr4 functionality but have a freebsd system call interface. Yes. This is exactly right. The SVR4 ABI is available... I can mail you a copy if you want (it's on a Motorolla FTP site, for what it's worth). > This greatly depends on having the source for the libraries, but for > the linux case this is no problem (it is for svr4 :( ) No. Building something that matches a written spec is trivial (so trivial it is often too boring to do 8-)). > The main showstopper here is the amount of work involved in doing > this. For svr4 its a "doit once" affair, but for linux you'll have to > follow their "patch of the hour" releases to be sure it works, not > my idea of having a good time :( Mine either. The SVR4 will buy us more in the immediate future anyway. I'd still like to the the install tools and other pieces I think are necessary to really claim you can install SVR4 apps the same way and "they will just work". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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